Continuity

Business Continuity

Cascade Financial Management has developed a Business Continuity Plan on how we will respond to events that significantly disrupt our business. Since the timing and impact of disasters and disruptions is unpredictable, we will have to be flexible in responding to actual events as they occur. With that in mind, we are providing you with this information on our business continuity plan.

Contacting Us – If after a significant business disruption you cannot contact us as you usually do at (303) 292-1121 or info@cascade-inc.com, you should call our alternative number at (303) 440-9596 or go to our web site at www.cascade-inc.com for further information. In the event that you cannot contact us via email or with the phone numbers listed above we will update our website with the direct phone numbers for each of our registered representatives so that you can contact your advisor directly.

Our Business Continuity Plan – We plan to quickly recover and resume business operations after a significant business disruption and respond by safeguarding our employees and property, making a financial and operational assessment, protecting the firm’s books and records, and allowing our customers to transact business. In short, our business continuity plan is designed to permit our firm to resume operations as quickly as possible, given the scope and severity of the significant business disruption. Our business continuity plan addresses:

Data back up and recovery

All mission critical systems

Financial and operational assessments

Alternative communications with customers, employees, and regulators

Alternate physical location of employees

Critical supplier, contractor, bank and counter-party impact

Regulatory reporting

Assuring our customers prompt access to their funds and securities if we are unable to continue our business.

Our clearing firms, Raymond James, TD Ameritrade and Schwab, back up our important records in a geographically separate area. While every emergency situation poses unique problems based on external factors, such as time of day and the severity of the disruption, we have been advised by our clearing firm that its objective is to restore its own operations and be able to complete existing transactions and accept new transactions and payments within the same business day. Your orders and requests for funds and securities could be delayed during this period.

Varying Disruptions – Significant business disruptions can vary in their scope, such as only our firm, a single building housing our firm, the business district where our firm is located, the city where we are located, or the whole region. Within each of these areas, the severity of the disruption can also vary from minimal to severe. In a disruption to only our firm or a building housing our firm, we will transfer our operations to a local site when needed and expect to recover and resume business as soon as our staff can reach that location. In a disruption affecting our business district, city, or region, we will transfer our operations to a site outside of the affected area, and recover and resume business as soon as we reach a location outside the affected area. In either situation, we plan to continue in business, transfer operations to our clearing firm if necessary, and notify you through our web site at (www.cascade-inc.com) or our customer emergency number, 303-440-9596, how to contact us. If the significant business disruption is so severe that it prevents us from remaining in business, we will assure our customer’s prompt access to their funds and securities.

For more information – If you have questions about our business continuity planning, you can contact us at 303-292-1121 or info@cascade-inc.com.